IRGC intelligence chief Majid Khademi killed in US-Israeli strikes

Israel announced connected Monday that it killed the caput of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Majid Khademi, arsenic the Middle East warfare entered time 38.The country's defence minister, Israel Katz, made the announcement.“The Revolutionary Guard are shooting astatine civilians and we are eliminating the leaders of the terrorists. Iran's leaders unrecorded with a consciousness of being targeted. We volition proceed to hunt them down 1 by one," The Associated Press quoted him arsenic saying.Katz added that Israel had “severely damaged” Iran's alloy and petrochemical industries arsenic well.“We volition proceed to crush the Iranian nationalist infrastructure and pb to the erosion and illness of the violent regime, and its capabilities to beforehand panic and occurrence astatine the authorities of Israel,” helium said. His comments came aft the IRGC announced Khademi's sidesplitting successful a station connected its Telegram channel."Major General Majid Khademi, the almighty and educated caput of the quality organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was martyred successful the transgression violent onslaught by the American-Zionist (Israel) enemy... astatine dawn today," the station read.Although the IRGC did not elaborate wherever Khademi was killed, aggregate airstrikes targeted residential areas astir Iran's capital, Tehran, successful the morning.

The United States and Israel person killed respective apical Iranian leaders, including those from the IRGC, during their ongoing subject run successful Iran. The attacks began connected February 28, sparking some Iranian retaliation and the Middle East conflict.The Islamic Republic's then-Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, was killed connected February 28. He has since been succeeded by his son, Mojtaba; however, Mojtaba's whereabouts are not known, and helium is reportedly nursing war-related injuries.(With bureau inputs)